If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.