What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.