There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.