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.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Time has only a relative existence.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.