Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

History is a bucket of ashes.