If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

Hope is a thing with feathers

The Soul selects her own Society.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

To be alive──is Power.

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!