Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.