We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

Birds never sing in caves.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.