"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

"A humble soul understands that joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."