Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.