We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.