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.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit