What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Make youself necessary to someone.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.