What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.