Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are occasions ... when all consolation is base and it is a duty to despair.

There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.