Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

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.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.