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.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

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

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

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.