"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

"Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism"

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."