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

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"

"Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if t…"

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"