As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.