“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“Go where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”

“I am God in nature;I am a weed by the wall.”

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”