There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.