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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.