“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”

“But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”