People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.