Youth Is Too Tumultuous For Felicity; Old

It Is In Vain That He Seeks Dominion Abroad, Who Is Not Kingly At Home.

It Is Of Very Little Use In Trying To Be Dignified, If Dignity Is No Part Of Your Character.

Activity And Sadness Are Incompatible.

There Is Something In The Character Of Every Man Which Cannot Be Broken In--the Skeleton Of His Character; And To Try To Alter This Is Like Training A Sheep For Draught Purposes. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Reflections Of Lichtenberg We Become Familiar With The Outsides Of Men, As With The Outsides Of Houses, And Think We Know Them, While We Are Ignorant Of So Much That Is Passing Within Them.

We Trifle When We Assign Limits To Our Desires, Since Nature Hath Set None.