A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

Reality is a sliding door.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.