Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.