There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.