There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

That government is best which governs least.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

All men are children, and of one family.

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.