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

Man must suffer to be wise.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Work makes a callus against grief.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."