Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.