Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.