Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

One lives but once in the world.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.