“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”

“I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant”

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”