Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.