I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.