Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.