Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.