Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.