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

"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…"

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

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

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

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

"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?"

"Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue."

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