"Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind."

"The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of t…"

"If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything."

"If the young are watched too closely, if they are kept habitually under surveillance, the spring of action is weakene…"

"Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man."

"The best money can procure for thee is freedom to live in thy true self. It is more apt however to enslave than to li…"

"What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow."

"If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?"

"They who think they know all, learn nothing."

"It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but le…"