Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.