Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.