Of what significance are the things you can forget.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

My profession is to always find God in nature.