Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.