The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

You don't know your testament when you see it.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.