The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Music and Wine are one.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.