Real improvement is of slow growth only.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.