The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.