When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.