It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it