You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.