Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.