"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump."

"The only way to get a friend is to be one."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in …"