The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.