Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.