It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.