If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.