Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.