A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.