God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.