If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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

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