There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Isolation breeds conceit.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.