Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.