One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.