Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

Some people are born very far from home.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.