Friends, though absent, are still present.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

The spirit is the true self.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.