A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.