I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Renew thyself completely each day.