We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.