Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.