It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.