Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.