You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.