Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.