Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.