Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.