All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition injustice oppression slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence even if only for an instant.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.