[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.