Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.