Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

There is no wealth but life.