The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.