I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!