The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.