We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

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

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

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