Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.