Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

The surest poison is time.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.