The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.