Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.