Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Experience is the extract of suffering.