We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.