Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.