Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.