Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.