Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.