I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.