When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

The pest of society is egotists.