“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent
“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
“It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
“Enjoy the good times, and endure the storms. Make your dreams come true, together… best wishes for your marriage day
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.