No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.