To be gret is to be misunderstood.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.