There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.