True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Character is that which can do without success.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.