Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.