We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.