Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.