What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.