We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.