My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.