| No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
| 1 | Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
| Action | |
| 2 | Every noble activity makes room for itself.
| Action | |
| 3 | What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
| Action | |
| 4 | Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning to own them: they solicit him to enter and possess.
| Address | |
| 5 | Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the eldest inhabitant.
| Aging | |
| 6 | Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
| Aging | |
| 7 | No sensible person ever made an apology.
| Apology | |
| 8 | Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
| Baby | Essays |
| 9 | In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
| Books | |
| 10 | For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history
| Books | |