Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.