Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~