If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.