They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.