A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.