Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
We walk alone in the world.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.