He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.