The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

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

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.