No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
The city is recruited from the country.
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
What you are comes to you.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.