Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.