I am then never less alone than when alone

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.