The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
There is always safety in valor.
Children are all foreigners.