Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.