However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.