The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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.
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.