The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.