Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.