“One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.”
“I cannot think of a life without him in it. I cannot bury another son. This time I fear they will have to put me in the ground with him.”
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable--it is sumpathy.”
“Men cannot survive without cheating, it is in their nature.”
“How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.”