If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.