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

Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!