Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.