Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

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?"

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?