People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
Experience makes us wise.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.