The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Let go of the past and go for the future.

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

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.