Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.