So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.