Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

There is one mind common to all individual men