As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.