When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.