A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

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?

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

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Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.