A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.