Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.