All cruelty springs from weakness.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Men's language is as their lives.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.