Experience is the extract of suffering.
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.