The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

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.

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