Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind.
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
