To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

The religions we call false were once true.