He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.