In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.