Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.
...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.