Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

...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.

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.