A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.