Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

As for health, consider yourself well.