Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.