“Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay”

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

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”

“What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.”

“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”

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

“In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.”