It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.