Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.