Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast