A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.