Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.