Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.