Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.