A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.