The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.