Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.