Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

I think no virtue goes with size.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.