If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.