"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."
"In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place."
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."
"The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us and which we can love."
"What lies before us and what lies behind us, is small compared to what lies within us."
"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."
"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
"You can take better care of your secret than another can."
"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."
"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon."
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
"A great man is always willing to be little."
"It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves."
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."