A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.