True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.