I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.