No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.