If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.