It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Idleness induces caprice.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.