There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.