Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.