Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?