Fractures well cured make us more strong.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.