We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.