In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.