We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.