The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

He who writes badly thinks badly

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.