A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.