I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.