God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

I was determined to know beans.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.