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

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Every child begins the world again.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.