Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.