Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.