Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.