Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.