If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.