Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful