In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.