Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.