Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.