The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

We can only know others by ourselves.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.