Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.