Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.