be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.