If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.