Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.