The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.