Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

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

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.