Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?
Traveling is a fool's paradise.