The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.