Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.