"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"To each his own. (Suum Cuique)"

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

"So we must daily keep things wound: that is, we must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain."