If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for

To know nothing is the happiest life

Fortune favors the audacious

The desire to write grows with writing

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes