A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.