The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.