Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.