I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.