If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.