To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.