Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.