As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.