“Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.”
“One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”
“Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”
“The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.”
“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
“Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.”
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
“Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
“The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.”
“Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.”
“They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.”
“What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.”
“The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.”
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
“The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.”
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
“Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
“The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.”
“An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.”
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
“You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.”
“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”