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.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

In imitation is a bit suicide.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.