The highest condition of art is artlessness.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.