He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.