Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.