Unlike grown ups children have little need to deceive themselves.

I always wished for this but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.

The press the machine the railway the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

In every death a busy world comes to an end.

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