Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.