Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

find your eternity in each moment

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.