Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.