We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.