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

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.