Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.