The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.