The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.