The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

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

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.