It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Today is a king in disguise.