Only one man ever understood me$$$ and he didn't understand me.

The nature of things is resistance to change$$$ while the nature of process is resistance to stasis.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

I think it an invaluable advantage to be born and brought up in the neighborhood of some grand and noble object in nature: a river$$$ a lake$$$ or a mountain. We make a friendship with it; we in a manner ally ourselves with it for life.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Don't think of what's past! said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?"

With every mistake$$$ we must surely be learning.

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.