Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
The only wealth is life.
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.