Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!