A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?