Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.