But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

America is a country of young men.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Genius Borrows nobly.