He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Men are better than this theology.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.