The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.