Every man is grave alone.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.