He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.