It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.