If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.