When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.