Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Our moods do not believe in each other.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew. it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

A man is known by the books he reads.

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

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.