Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.