“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man”

“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible”

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world”

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well”