One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

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