The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.