Justice without wisdom is impossible.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.