The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.