Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.