Farewell's a bitter word to say.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Fame is bought by happiness.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.