All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.