Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Never read any book that is not a year old.