The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.