Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.