Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Friendship buys friendship.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.