You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.