Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The breath of the mind is attention.

We disjoint the mind like the body.