Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.