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

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Labor is God's education.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.