The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.