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.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.