“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.