There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.