You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.