I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.