“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

“You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body”

“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.”

“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”

“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”

“I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.”