You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

That grand old poem called Winter