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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting ...more

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the ...more

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into un...more

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Language is fossil poetry

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the languag...more

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.