The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.