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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.

A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.

The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted!

We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

To be great is to be misunderstood

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.