I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.