The rule is to carry as little as possible.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.