As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.