No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.