I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all
Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum,
Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati.
He has no time to be anything but a machine.
Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
