A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

We are older by faith than by experience.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.