Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

A forte always makes a foible.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Isolation must precede true society.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.