Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.