The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.