Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.