"Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax."

"He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be."

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day."

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."

"The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can."

"A precedent embalms a principle."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it."

"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought."

"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind."

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."