Absence
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
Books and Reading
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Future
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Happiness
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Merit
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Quarrels
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Wrong
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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