The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

There is a crack in everything God has made

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.