The miserable are sacred.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Speech is the index of the mind.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.