A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

See what daily exercise does for one.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

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.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.