It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.