“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”

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

“I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.”