The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

History is a great dust heap.