Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.