Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.