The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.