The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.