To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Revolutions go not backward.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.