Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.