Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

My profession is to always find God in nature.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.