I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.