The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Fire is the most tolerable third party