In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Keep away from the fire!

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.