Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.