If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?