Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.