Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.