Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That's why the planets are so much better company than the stars — they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you're going to find them.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.