Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Good manners require space and time.