Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.