“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.