Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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