Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.