Being is the great explainer.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.