Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.