Consult Duty Not Events.

Those Who In Living Fill The Smallest Space, In Death Have Often Left The Greatest Void.

Solitude Is The Audience-chamber Of God.

As The Pearl Ripens In The Obscurity Of Its Shell, So Ripens In The Tomb All The Fame That Is Truly Precious.

What Is Reading But Silent Conversation?

Cruelty Is No More The Cure Of Crimes Than It Is The Cure Of Sufferings; Compassion, In The First Instance, Is Good For Both; I Have Known It To Bring Compunction When Nothing Else Would.