The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.