Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.