Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.