You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.