What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.