Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.