But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.