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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that

Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.

Even the commonest men reserve the violent, the sulky, the undisguisedly selfish side of their character for those who have no power to withstand it.

A man who is morose or violent to his equals, is sure to be one who has lived among inferiors, whom he could frighten or worry into submission.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.