Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.
Great souls are harmonious.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.