The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Life is a series of surprises.