A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.