Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.