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.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.