Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.