Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
O God, how lovely still is life!
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
The world's history is the world's judgment.
Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.