He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.