"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."

"I have a profound distrust of all forms of religious enthusiasm."

"I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation."

"There are some people who are like a good fire—they warm you up."

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."