But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

While we teach, we learn.