Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.