The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.