Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.