There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

You cannot see the mountain near.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.