“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

“An extraordinary dream by lord charles wellesley. (Charlotte Bronte)'In this slumber i thought i was walking on the banks of a river... Which murmered over small pebbles at the bottom, gleaming like crystals through the silver stream' 'and the green buds of the wild rose trees around were unopened' 'and a mild warmth were shed from the sun... Then at its height in the blue sky”

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

“Look twice before you leap.”

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”