Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.