Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.