Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.