Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.