All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.