Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

The house praises the carpenter.