Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

Nature is goodness crystallized.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.