I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise..

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas..

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain..

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish….

The soul knows no persons..

A friend is the hope of the heart..

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think..

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry..

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign ….

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unn….

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyon….

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich..

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but….

The key to every man is his thought..

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody..

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and s….

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice….

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone..

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God..

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong..