Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Time,--the most independent of all things.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.