Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.