Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.