Society has no bribe for me.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.