In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.