If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.