The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.