The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.