He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

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