“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.”

“Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”

“If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.”

“The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.”

“Always remember that if a man knows where he can make a dollar, he will not tell you about it; he will go after it himself.”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”