If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.