“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”

“God does not patch up the old life,or make certain repairs on the old life;He gives a new life, through the new birth.”

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”

“If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love vanishes.”

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.”