It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

a good reader makes a good book

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.