While we are postponing, life speeds by.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

"Contented poverty is an honourable estate."

presently that brow of yours will be smoothed

is hard to observe a mean; we must be chary of letting the fear of jealousy lead us into becoming objects of scorn, lest, when we choose not to stamp others down, we let them think that they can stamp us down. The power to inspire fear has caused many men to be in fear.

but we should also be prepared, when reason, self-respect, and duty demand the sacrifice, to deliver it even to the flames.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place.

My situation, however, is the same as that of many who are reduced to slender means through no fault of their own: every one forgives them, but no one comes to their rescue.

Virtue is held too cheap by the man who counts his body too dear. We should cherish the body with the greatest care;