Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.