The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

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.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.