Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.