Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

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

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.