Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.