There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

We can only obey our own polarity.

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.