Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.