Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.