“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

“We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time”