Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

All history is biography.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

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