The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.