Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.