Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

We can only know others by ourselves.