Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

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

Love your life, poor as it is.