If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

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

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?