The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.