I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.