A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.