The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.