It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

We live by information, not by sight.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.