Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.