The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.