I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.