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

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.