Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I am a part and parcel of God.