Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.