Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.