Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .