As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.