“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.”

“It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”