A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.