He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.