The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.