“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.”
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.”
“People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.”
“People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.”
“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”
“Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.”
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
“Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.”