Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.