It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.