Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.