We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Freedom can occur only through education.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.