The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.