There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.