Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.