The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.