How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.