There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.