Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.