The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.