A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.