Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.