Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.