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.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.