Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.