True obedience is true freedom.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.