Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
Eat to live, not live to eat.
When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.