On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.