Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

I find it wholesome to be alone the better part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.