What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.