Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

The instinct of the people is right.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.