First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.