Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

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

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.