The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.