Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.