Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.