A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

The world laughs in flowers.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!