Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.