There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.