Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.