Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

Thoughts rule the world.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.