Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Every sin provokes its punishment.