It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.