One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.