I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

The most alive is the wildest.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.