The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.