People who know how to act are never preachers.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.