Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.