"The law of nature is alternation for..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”

“There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.”

“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.”

“Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.”

“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”

“What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.”

“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.”