"Self praise is no praise at all."

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

"God would have made his Will known without books, considering how very few could read when Jesus of Nazareth lived, had it been His pleasure to ratify any peculiar mode of worship."

"The great art of life is to suffer without complaining."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."