The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.