The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, in wisdom.

The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages-leaf after leaf-never re-turning one.