The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

The most universal quality is diversity.