I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her