God has prohibited despair.

The law of common sense.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.