“It is the mind that makes the body rich”

“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”

“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”

“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution”

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”