The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Coal is a portable climate.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.