No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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