Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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?

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.