Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.