My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?