The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.