In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.