One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.