The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.