The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.