We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.