What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.