Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.