To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Love of action is not industry.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Who has more leisure than a worm?