'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

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