Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'