To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.