Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.