The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.