They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
What is once well done is done forever.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.