Motives Are Causes Experienced From

Will Minus Intellect Constitutes Vulgarity.

Ignorance Is Degrading Only When Found In Company With Great Riches.

We Should Comfort Ourselves With The Masterpieces Of Art As With Exalted Personages-stand Quietly Before Them And Wait Till They Speak To Us.

The Best Consolation In Misfortune Or Affliction Of Any Kind Will Be The Thought Of Other People Who Are In A Still Worse Plight Than Yourself; And This Is A Form Of Consolation Open To Every One. But What An Awful Fate This Means For Mankind As A Whole! We Are Like Lambs In A Field, Disporting Themselves Under The Eye Of The Butcher, Who Chooses Out First One And Then Another For His Prey.

If God Made The World, I Would Not Be That God, For The Misery Of The World Would Break My Heart.