Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Character

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Enemies

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Fun

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

Knowledge

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Perfection

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Smile

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.