True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Be not simply good - be good for something.