The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

What's money without happiness?

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

Business first, then pleasure.