Renew thyself completely each day.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.