Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.