The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.