Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.