But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.