I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.