The poor are only they who feel poor.

The first wealth is health.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.