Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

First be a good animal.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Some people are born very far from home.