A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed