The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.