A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.