People read every thing nowadays, except books.

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

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

The law of common sense.