Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.