When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.