Good Impulses Are Naught, Unless They Become

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

Never Write Anything That Does Not Give You Great Pleasure. Emotion Is Easily Transferred From The Writer To The Reader.

He Who Has Not The Weakness Of Friendship Has Not The Strength.

Virtue Is The Health Of The Soul.

Our Worries Always Come From Our Weaknesses.