No man can have society upon his own terms.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.