Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.