“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

“Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.”

“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”

“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”