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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

There is no true orator who is not a hero.