The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.