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

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.