The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

As for health, consider yourself well.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.