Men Rattle Their Chains-to Manifest Their Freedom.

People Resemble Still More The Time In Which They Live, Than They Resemble Their Fathers.

When We Consider The Incidents Of Former Days, And Perceive, While Reviewing The Long Line Of Causes, How The Most Important Events Of Our Lives Originated In The Most Trifling Circumstances; How The Beginning Of Our Greatest Happiness Or Greatest Misery Is To Be Attributed To A Delay, To An Accident, To A Mistake; We Learn A Lesson Of Profound Humility.

It Is Better In Some Respects To Be Admired By Those With Whom You Live Than To Be Loved By Them; And This Not On Account Of Any Gratification Of Vanity, But Because Admiration Is So Much More Tolerant Than Love.

The Apparent Foolishness Of Others Is But Too Frequently Our Own Ignorance.

Those Who Never Philosophized Until They Met With Disappointments, Have Mostly Become Disappointed Philosophers