Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.