Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.