If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.