The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Isolation must precede true society.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

There is a crack in everything God has made

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.