Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.