Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.