The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

A day is a miniature eternity.