Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.