All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.