Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.