As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.