As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.