What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.