I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.