There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

Convert life into truth.

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.