A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.