It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.