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.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!