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

“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves”

“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.”

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

“Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay”

“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.”

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”