"Any nobleness begins at once to refine..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”

“Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.”

“It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.”

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”

“He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul.”

“Without virtue, happiness cannot be.”

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”

“The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.”