The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.