I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

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

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.