For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.